Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean the supernatural must be portrayed as exotic: the most chilling thing about those women might be their normality, as if they were plump, middle-aged matrons nattering across a backyard fence about their ability to conjure spirits. That very perception of character seems to have guided Geraldine Page in a less malevolent but equally necromantic role, the ghost-summoning Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's larkish Blithe Spirit, which was revived on Broadway last week. The cast includes Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner and Judith Ivey, all in good form, but this is Page's show. In a career including...
...Page's tics, fidgets and exaggerated nasalities, which have overdecorated many a characterization, here serve to heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses...
...Coward's works. Still, this intelligent approach baffles some theatergoers and irritates others. It muffles many of the play's laughs and, more troublesome at the box office, keeps Chamberlain from maximizing his easy charm. Yet audiences who come to see him may depart delighted at having seen Page in full cry, sloshing her drinks onto people, cramming her mouth with sandwiches, then abruptly divining where her seance went wrong with a fierce delight that would surely have bewitched Coward himself...
...wash-ups, life is a pathetic waste of time heaped upon a worthless individual. Not for Peter Angst, however, who believes that "true excellence can be sought even in failure." Last semester Angst performed what fans have called his greatest feat: staying up all night to write a two-page paper that was so late it could not possibly get credit anyway, than deciding the paper wasn't good enough at 5 a.m., throwing it out, and then sleeping through the hourly exams he had that day--all seven of them...
...page report, which was prepared by a committee of 18 prominent physicists co-chaired by Gade University Professor and Nobel Laureate Nicolaas Bloembergen, examines each of the directed energy weapons proposed for use in SDI. The Reagan Administration has touted the "Star Wars" system as a shield against nuclear weapons...